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Kristof Coussement

IESEG School of Management
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Cited by 4403

Improving customer attrition prediction by integrating emotions from client/company interaction emails and evaluating multiple classifiers

K Coussement, D Van den Poel - Expert Systems with Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
Predicting customer churn with the purpose of retaining customers is a hot topic in academy
as well as in today’s business environment. Targeting the right customers for a specific …

A new hybrid classification algorithm for customer churn prediction based on logistic regression and decision trees

A De Caigny, K Coussement, KW De Bock - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Decision trees and logistic regression are two very popular algorithms in customer churn
prediction with strong predictive performance and good comprehensibility. Despite these …

Acceptance of text-mining systems: The signaling role of information quality

NTM Demoulin, K Coussement - Information & management, 2020 - Elsevier
The popularity of the big data domain has boosted corporate interest in collecting and storing
tremendous amounts of consumers’ textual information. However, decision makers are …

Uplift modeling and its implications for B2B customer churn prediction: A segmentation-based modeling approach

A De Caigny, K Coussement, W Verbeke… - Industrial Marketing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Business-to-business (B2B) customer retention relies heavily on analytics and predictive
modeling to support decision making. Given this, we introduce uplift modeling as a relevant …

Churn prediction in subscription services: An application of support vector machines while comparing two parameter-selection techniques

K Coussement, D Van den Poel - Expert systems with applications, 2008 - Elsevier
CRM gains increasing importance due to intensive competition and saturated markets. With
the purpose of retaining customers, academics as well as practitioners find it crucial to build …

Identifying influencers on social media

P Harrigan, TM Daly, K Coussement, JA Lee… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increased availability of social media big data has created a unique challenge for marketing
decision-makers; turning this data into useful information. One of the significant areas of …

A comparative analysis of data preparation algorithms for customer churn prediction: A case study in the telecommunication industry

K Coussement, S Lessmann, G Verstraeten - Decision Support Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Data preparation is a process that aims to convert independent (categorical and continuous)
variables into a form appropriate for further analysis. We examine data-preparation …

Improving customer complaint management by automatic email classification using linguistic style features as predictors

K Coussement, D Van den Poel - Decision support systems, 2008 - Elsevier
Customer complaint management is becoming a critical key success factor in today's
business environment. This study introduces a methodology to improve complaint-handling …

Integrating the voice of customers through call center emails into a decision support system for churn prediction

K Coussement, D Van den Poel - Information & Management, 2008 - Elsevier
We studied the problem of optimizing the performance of a DSS for churn prediction. In
particular, we investigated the beneficial effect of adding the voice of customers through call …

Customer churn prediction in the online gambling industry: The beneficial effect of ensemble learning

K Coussement, KW De Bock - Journal of Business Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The online gambling industry is one of the most revenue generating branches of the
entertainment business, resulting in fierce competition and saturated markets. Therefore it is …